Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

Date of Records:  1879-1924

.5 Cubic Feet, 1 Box

Description

Papers of Marine Hospital Service Surgeon General John Brown Hamilton. Includes two scrapbooks of clippings, a letterbook with official correspondence, a diary covering Hamilton's service as a delegate to Germany, a photograph, an AMA certificate, a booklet called "Lessons in Longevity," and three reprints. Hamilton's mortar board is in Historical Collections.

Folder List

1. Diary of trip to Germany and elsewhere in Europe, 1890, 1892

2. Scrapbook of clippings on cholera quarentine, 1892

3. Scrapbook on Hamilton and Marine Hospital Service, 1879-1886

4. Photo of Hamilton

   Letter to Hamilton, 1898

   Letter to Blanche Hamilton (Hamilton's daughter), 1924

5. "Lessons in Longevity," 1884, booklet by Hamilton

6. "The Establishment of a National Quarantine Station Near New York Harbor," 1892, booklet by Hamilton

7. "Drainage of Chicago," 1891, booklet by Hamilton

8. "Life and Times of Dr. Reuben B. Mussey," 1896, booklet by Hamilton

9. American Medical Association certificate designating Hamilton as delegate to the British

    Medical Association and other foreign associations, 1888